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Letters Patent No. 77,515, dated Mag 5, 1868.

IMPROVEMENTN Tence-Hooks.

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Be it knowjn that I, G. AL. MLPLLER, oi' Pontiac, in the county ofOakland, and State-of Michigan, have invented certain-new and usefulImprovements in' TraceHook,.`&c.; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a fuuand complete description Ff the Same: feferene'bein'ghad to the accompanying, drawings, making a part'of this specification,in Whieh.-` f v jFigureQ iam; under side lv'iexvof the-hockey Figure 3.isnan end yieiv of the same.'

Figurec` isa view of the hook and'eye. f

Like letters of reference refer to like parte in the views.' This deviceconsists ofthe shank A., lig.1,'wh'el1 is screwed into the end of thewhiic-t-ree in the ordinary Figure 1 isa tcp side view of'the hoo'jiththetfeee-eye attached.

lwey. 'f'lhe hook B, iig. 3, is broad and Het, and curvedv in thepeculiar 1nanner,.as repre-sented in the drawing-,-

fin which it will be seen that one edge o f the hook, at C, fig. 4, ismuch thicker 'than the relative opposite one,

which is brought. nearly to a. thin edge, lso thzito'n introducing thehook into the eye C, the thick edge will be at the longest transversediameter o5 the hole, and the thin one at the shortest, as shown infigs. 2 and 4, which .shows the hooks as being partially inserted in theeye; and `Whenthe hook is Whollyinserted,.the'eye will" I .encircletheneck D, as slown in fig. 1, and draws from the-same; thehook-preventing the eye from becoming dnhooked, which it cannot possiblydo, as .thewidth of the'bas'e f the hook is much .greater than thetransverse f diameter of the eye, which, to he released from the hook,must'be first turned upward to a vertical direction,

and' thus carried back around thecnrve to the end of the hook.

This trace-hook isi-simple in its structnrc,and durable, as the draught,as above said, is not from hook, but

hn the neck; hence it is not liable to break, and'cannot'unhook withoutassistance. It is safe, end requiresno spring orleathe'r to fasten thetrace-eye, 'and no dspecial skill to manipulate it.

-Wxhat Iclaeim as my improvemen'and desire to secure hy Letters Patent,is-

Thellereimdescribed trace-hook, when constructed in the manner as setfor-th, as a new article of manu- I 4facture. i'

I G. L. MILLER: Witnesses:

JW. H. Bomunan,

' J. HOLMES.'

